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Liev Schreiber Quotes

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1967

Topics

Curious Motivation Intention Acting

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

Power People Pressure Circumstances

The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.

Love History Ideas Book Will More

To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something, is totally wrong. It's insane. Elvis' relationship with Colonel Parker, his manager, was one of the most possibly corrupt, certainly lucrative, and intense business partnerships ever in rock n' roll.

Business Relationship Identity Free

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

Work Hard Work I Am People Writing

I had my own little quirks as a child.

Solange Knowles

Child My Own Little Own Had

It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

War Influence Go Elections Cheaper

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Photography New Investigation Up Era

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.

Money Writing Ego Story Rich Fish

I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.

Time School Airplane Mechanic Long

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

Good People Others More Some People

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

Life Success New York Problems You

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

William Shakespeare

Temptation Loving Dangerous Sin Us

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